Attachment for mangles.



J. SOROKIN.

ATTACHMENT FOR MANGLES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-18. 1913.

1,178,759. I Patented. Apr. 11,1916.

JOSEPH SOROKIN, 0F DES MOINES, IOWA.

ATTACHMENT Eon MANGLES.

Specification of Letters Batent.

I Patented Apr-.11, 1916.

Application filedAugustlS} 913. serialno. 785,219.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SoRoK1N, a

citizen of the United States, residing in Des Moines, county of Polk, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Mangles, of which the following is a specificatio The object of my invention is to. provide automatic means for producing a strong tension on the guide cords, or ribbons, in a mangle used for laundry, and. similar purposes. I

A further object is to provide such means in a simple, strong, durable and practically inexpensive construction.

My invention consists of certain details of construction hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I shows a transverse sectional view of a part of a mangle fitted out with my device; Fig. II shows a front elevation view of a mangle fitted out with my device; Figs. III and IV show detail views of one of the spring actuated rods I employ.

Referring to the accompanying drawings the reference numeral 10 is used to indicate the large central roller of a mangle and the numerals 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, the small rollers thereof. Passing 'over the small rollers and then under them and between I them and the large roller are cords 16, each cord being endless and arranged in the manner shown, which is the ordinary construction; It is necessary to provide means for keeping a tighttension on each of these cords as they are used for guide purposes and soon lose their efliciency .on account of I stretching and the like.- To accomplish this I have mounted a cross bar, 17, to the frame of the mangle so that it will be parallel with the. rollers. In said cross bar, properly spaced and arranged to be in line withthe guide cords, I have secured upwardly pro Patent of the United States is:

In practical operation the guide pass over the grooved wheels and the tension of the cords is suflicient to hold the spring actuated rod l8,down. As the cords stretch, by reason of use, the spring actuated rods'move upward this automatically keep ng the required tension on the cords.

Having thus described my invention, what I'claim and desire to secure byLetters 1. In combination with the large roller of a mangle, of a series of smaller rollers arranged about the. periphery of the large roller," a plurality of endless cords-taking over and under the smaller rollers between the latterandthe larger roller, and a pluactuated tensioning'devices one of the latter for each endless cord to normally maintain the same taut gndadapted to yield to permit of the cord flexing whereby any cord may independently give on encountering an irregular surface between it and the large roller and return to its normalposition subsequent to the surface.

2. An attachment for mangles comprising a series of rollers, a plurality of endless cords taking thereover, across bar extending between the rollers and within the endless cords and being provided with a plu- 'rality of vertical openings therein, a rod having ahead and a depending shank extending through each opening of the bar, a spacing sleeve slidably receiving the lower end of each rod and secured in the lower part of each bar opening "to space the rod.

passing of such irregular from the Walls of the opening, a coiledspring seating on the sleeve and bearing upwardly on the head of the rod, said spring coiling about the rod within the bar opening 'in the space provided by the spacing sleeve, means securing the rods from 'dis- I lodgement from the spacing sleeves, and a wheel carried by the head of each rod and engagingjwith arespective endless 00rd,, JOSEPH SOROKIN.

Witnesses;

FRANK STEINER, ZELL G. Rona.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissionerof Patents, a

' Washington, D. 0. 

